PRODUCER

Clive Davis

1932 - Today

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Clive Jay Davis (born April 4, 1932) is an American record producer, A&R executive, record executive, and lawyer. He has won five Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as a non-performer, in 2000. From 1967 to 1973, Davis was the president of Columbia Records. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Clive Davis has received more than 4,816,365 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Clive Davis is the 54th most popular producer (up from 59th in 2019), the 6,093rd most popular biography from United States (up from 7,567th in 2019) and the 27th most popular American Producer.

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  • 4.8M

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  • 55.84

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.93

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PRODUCERS

Among producers, Clive Davis ranks 54 out of 140Before him are Boney Kapoor, Jesse L. Lasky, Gale Anne Hurd, Yoram Globus, Mike Todd, and Chris Blackwell. After him are Richard D. Zanuck, Sam Spiegel, Kevin Feige, Harry Saltzman, Oskar Messter, and Buddy Adler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Clive Davis ranks 300Before him are Hans van Manen, Donald Kagan, Raymond Kaelbel, Aleksandr Belyavsky, Mickey Kuhn, and Hans Apel. After him are Sándor Mátrai, John Vernon, Ugo Mifsud Bonnici, Cliff Allison, John Flynn, and Joe Engle.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Clive Davis ranks 6,093 out of 20,380Before him are Michael Sembello (1954), Timothy Zahn (1951), Mike D'Antoni (1951), Glenn Morris (1912), Chico Hamilton (1921), and Norman Spinrad (1940). After him are Tom Lister Jr. (1958), Seth Godin (1960), Matt Reeves (1966), Frederic Remington (1861), Chuck Connors (1921), and William Wakefield Baum (1926).

Among PRODUCERS In United States

Among producers born in United States, Clive Davis ranks 27Before him are Saul Zaentz (1921), Safdie brothers (null), Robert Chartoff (1933), Jesse L. Lasky (1880), Gale Anne Hurd (1955), and Mike Todd (1909). After him are Richard D. Zanuck (1934), Kevin Feige (1973), Buddy Adler (1906), Bob Weinstein (1954), Shonda Rhimes (1970), and Charles Roven (1949).